Religion Archive

On May 1, Punjab Police arrested Sikh leader Barjinder Singh Parwana for instigating Sikhs against the ‘Khalistan Murdabad March’ in Patiala.

Stone pelting was once an everyday phenomenon in the Kashmir Valley. Young children and grown men alike, dawned skull caps, unfurled ISIS flags, and took to stoning the security forces in unison. However, with the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, the cases of stone-pelting gradually began to drop. Today, it is close to nil.

The Hijab controversy in Karnataka has received a lot of attention in recent weeks. On January 1, this year, some female Muslim students at a Pre-University College (PUC) in Udupi attempted to enter their class while wearing a Hijab. The headmaster forbade the girls from attending classes because they were dressed in Islamic robes. He pointed out that there had never been a problem, and that it rendered the concept of uniform superfluous.

Days after Hindu boys wore saffron shawls in response to the Muslim girl students violating the uniform rules and regulations by wearing hijab, the girl students of the college took to the streets of Kundapur, Udupi by wearing saffron shawls.

Any sort of depiction of Prophet Muhammad draws a fierce pushback from Muslims around the world. As per contemporary interpretation of Islam, the pictorial representation of Prophet Muhammad is an anathema, something that is strictly prohibited and even regarded as ‘blasphemy’.

In the early hours of Saturday (January 29), Tamil Nadu police arrested Ganesh Babu, an RSS volunteer from the Pudukottai district who had filed a complaint alleging religious conversion in his neighbourhood. The incident occurred on January 21 and Ganesh was arrested on Saturday and produced before a magistrate on Sunday.

Maulana Qamar Gani Usmani was arrested by the Gujarat ATS on January 30 in connection to the brutal murder of a Hindu man named Kishan Bharwad in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad. Usmani has been accused of aiding and abetting Shabbir, the person who had killed Bharwad over alleged ‘blasphemy’.

On Saturday a video had gone viral on social media where it was alleged that Bajrang Dal activists had forcefully stopped offering of namaz in a ‘mosque’ in Mora village of Surat in Gujarat.

There are two types of girls who fall victim to grooming jihad, said Kavita Dubey, a social worker in Surat who has been dealing with cases of grooming jihad for a few years now. The target girls are divided into two parts: Poor Dalit Hindu girls or upper-caste Hindu girls belonging to the low-income group, mostly migrant Maharashtrian Brahmin girls or upper-caste affluent girls from financially well-off families.

Charles Dickens is a name many Hindus who have studied in English-medium schools or Christian convents are familiar with. Some of his novels like Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield were either part of the English literature curriculum or staple diet for teenagers with a taste for reading, the entire reading horizon is usually limited to English language literature for many such young minds.